The second sort of woman will reveal your secret to a friend; the third will make of it a tale against you.

And this they do instinctively, as dogs will bark or asses bray, without malevolence or any kind of forethought.
'That same priest of the Maronites of whom I told just now, in the first days of his married life was plagued by his companion to reveal to her the secrets people told him in confession.

He refused, declaring that she would divulge them.
'"Nay, I can keep a secret if I swear to do so.

Only try me!" she replied.
'"Well, we shall see," the priest made answer, in a teasing manner.
'One day, as he reclined upon the sofa in their house, that priest began to moan and writhe as if in agony.

His wife, in great alarm, inquired what ailed him.
'"It is a secret," he replied, "which I dare not confide to thee, for with it is bound up my earthly welfare and my soul's salvation." '"I swear by Allah I will hide it.